The Book of Art for Young People by Conway

Red Riding Hood by G.F. Watts


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To see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used in a study of the Renaissance, click here. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

To view all of the 16 beautiful full-color illustrations that accompany this text on one page, click here. They are also included in this post.

To listen to this book, you can click play in the box below, or click on the individual chapter titles.

Running time: 4 hours, 12 minutes

01 Introduction

02 The Thirteenth Century in Europe
Richard II before the Virgin and Child

03 Richard II
The Three Maries by H. Van Eyck

04 The Van Eycks

Saint Jerome in his study by Antonello da Messina

05 The Renaissance
The Mystical Nativity by Sandro Botticelli

06 Raphael

The Knight's Dream by Raphael



07 The Renaissance in Venice

The Golden Age by Giorgione

08 The Renaissance in the North
St. George destroying the dragon by Tintoret

Edward, Prince of Wales, Afterward Edward VI by Holbein

09 Rembrandt

A Man in Armor by Rembrandt

10 Peter de Hoogh and Cuyp

An Interior by P. de Hoogh


Landscape with Cattle by Cuyp


11 Van Dyck

William II of Orange by Van Dyck


12 Velasquez

Don Balthazar Carlos by Velaszquez

13 Reynolds and the Eighteenth Century

The Duke of Gloucester by Sir J. Reynolds

14 Turner

The Fighting Temeraire by Turner

15 The Nineteenth Century

Modern Kids: Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters. 1975-2005.

The Museum of Modern Art did not include this work of art with the podcast, perhaps for copyright reasons. I’ve posted a link below the podcast where you can see the images.


courtesy of Museum of Modern Art

This link takes you to a gallery online where you can see 32 Brown Sisters images. You’ll see one picture with an orange dot beside it. Hovering over the dot will reveal more of the photos, and you can click on the one you want to enlarge

Note: Clicking the link for the Fraenkel Gallery will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School.

Modern Kids: Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911

The Museum of Modern Art has not included the painting with the podcast for Marc Chagall’s I and the Village, perhaps due to copyright law. I’ve included a link to the painting. If at all possible, open two windows on your browser. Use one to listen to the podcast, the other to view the painting at the same time.


courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art

Here is the painting that accompanies this podcast.

Click here to see a CurrClick Lapbook project pack on Great Artists of the World. These links will take you away from My Audio School.

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